Events

Upcoming events

Further information on upcoming events will be released in due course.

Past events

2025

• Friday 30th May 2025 – Pacific Imaginations discussion panel

  Lead: Professor Nina Laurie
  Panel Members: Michael Cronin, Uma Kothari, Emma Sutton and Tony Crook
  Location: Forbes Room, Irvine Building

• Thursday 29th May 2025 – Sustainability Stories

  Half day event in partnership with St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities (StACCS).

• Wednesday 30th April 2025 – Race riots and Scotland

  Half day event in partnership with Ziad Elmarsafy, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews.

• Wednesday 23rd April 2025 – Hopeful pessimism

  Lead: Mara van der Lugt
  

• Wednesday 2nd April 2025 – Communities

  Lead: Nissa Finney
  Affiliation: GOSSIP, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
  Location: George Cumming Room, Irvine Building

• Friday 21st March 2025 – The Price is Wrong

  Lead: Brett Christophers
  Affiliation: Uppsala University

• Wednesday 19th February 2025 – Foundation stone of empire: Portland Stone, national memory, and the heritage industry

  Lead: Alice Butler
  Affiliation: School of Geography and Sustainable Development

• Wednesday 29th January 2025 – Race and racism in Italy

  Lead: Annalisa Frisina
  Affiliation: University of Padua

2024

• Wednesday 11th December 2024 – Critically Engaging Participatory Action Research

  Lead: Mike Kesby
  Affiliation: GOSSIP, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
  Location: George Cumming Room, Irvine Building
  Time: 1-2pm

• Wednesday 27th November 2024 – Using Sex as archive of reading the City: Caste, Queerness, and everyday worldmaking in Delhi

  Lead: Dhiren Borisa
  Affiliation: Jindal Global Law School, India
  Location: George Cumming Room, Irvine Building
  Time: 1-2pm

• Wednesday 13th November 2024 – Rethinking Territory (again)

  Lead: Joe Painter
  Affiliation: Durham University
  Location: George Cumming Room, Irvine Building
  Time: 1-2pm

• Tuesday 29th October 2024 – From market-based instruments to conservation basic income: non-market support for convivial conservation

  Lead: Rob Fletcher
  Affiliation: Wageningen University, Netherlands
  Location: United College, Room 32
  Time: 1-2pm

• Friday 25th October 2024 – ReAnimate: animal political ecologies

  Lead: Rosaleen Duffy
  Affiliation: University of Sheffield
  Location: Forbes Room, Irvine Building
  Time: 10-11am

• Wednesday 16th October 2024 – It Stops Here!

  Lead: Rueben George and Mike Simpson in conversation with Jess Hope and Ariadne Collins
  Location: Parliament Hall
  Time: 6-7:30pm

• Wednesday 2nd October 2024 – Introductory session

  Location: George Cumming Room, Irvine Building
  Time: 1-2pm

2022

• Wednesday 16th March 2022 – Exploring communities’ perceptions of wind energy on the island of Newfoundland, Canada

  Lead: Jess Hogan
  Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
  Time: 3pm

• Wednesday 2nd March 2022 – Navigating power relationships in African climate services

  Lead: Katherine Vincent
  Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
  Time: 3pm

• Wednesday 9th February 2022 – Semester 2 GOSSIP away day

  Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
  Time: 1:30-4pm

• Wednesday 2nd February 2022 – Urbanizing empire: US military territoriality in South Korea

  Lead: Bridget Martin
  Affiliation: Harvard University
  Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
  Time: 2pm

• Wednesday 19th January 2022 – Carbon Capital

  Lead: Sean Field
  Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
  Time: 3pm

2021

• Wednesday 10th November 2021 – Amazonian Journeys (RSGS)

  Lead: Professor Nina Laurie
  Affiliation: GOSSIP, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
  Location: Online
  Time: 7:30pm

• Wednesday 27th October 2021 – Capitalism in the flow of sound

  Lead: Max Ritts
  Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
  Time: 3pm

• Wednesday 13th October 2021 – Disciplined within borders: Im/possibilities of young people’s national and global resistive engagement

  Lead: Tracey Skelton
  Affiliation: National University of Singapore
  Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)
  Time: 3pm